Fashionably Late: IDS11 Opening Night Gala!

by ChristineFebruary 03, 2011

I always like to be just a little fashionably late for any social event I attend, and apparently that also applies to writing blog posts about social events! Although the IDS Opening Night Party was a week ago, it still feels like it just happened yesterday. Time flies when you’re having FUN!!!

Quick warning: It’s a ‘pose-fest’ of pics below. No design pics, just a lot of posers!!

The evening began with a pre-gala Tweet-up dinner at Nota Bene organized by 2 lovely ladies: Meredith Heron and Sonya Kincaid. It was wonderful to finally meet some great ladies that I tweet with, but have never met in real life! Women came as far as Alberta, Ottawa and Montreal. It was definitely a schmooze fest of Design professionals who love to tweet on Twitter.

Tracy Moore and Patrick from Cityline also attended the Tweet-up dinner and filmed us crazy ladies for a segment that will hopefully air on Cityline soon! Too much fun!!!

Oh yea……..work it ladies!!!

Working it some more!

It never stops!

Style at Home Magazine also attended the dinner with some fabulous prizes for some lucky winners -- including Sarah! That's Margot Austin and Lauren McPhillips from Style at Home. Lauren also wrote a blog post about the evening with lots of great pics -- you can read it here.

After dinner it was off to the IDS Opening Night Gala...a party I definitely will attend from here on in! A schmooze fest of who's who in the Interior Design World. Unfortunately my purse was too small to carry my lipstick, phone AND camera....thankfully my 'co-horts' in FUN had cameras and took some sassy pictures of us in action!!

Vamping it up for the camera!!

Catching up on some light reading.

Glamorous Ladies!

And of course, the last pic of the night was with Mr. Dimples himself, Scott McGillivray from Income Property. Can you tell I was feeling absolutely no pain by the end of the night!

Hope you enjoyed this post, although I do apologize that it was heavily skewed toward ME :-) and my design buddies. But if you want to see more pics from the IDS show, than head over to either Vanessa or Ana's Blog where they posted about the show on Trade Day.